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EASTERN TRANSP. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 57.

272 U.S. 675 (1927)

EASTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John M. Woolsey and Edward R. Baird, Jr., for appellant.

Mr. J. Frank Staley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Letts, and Mr. H.H. Rumble, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Eastern Transportation Company filed a libel in admiralty in personam against the United States in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, under the Suits in Admiralty Act of 1920, and against the Seaboard Transportation Company, as joint defendants. It averred that the libelant, a corporation...

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